Information and commentary on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Seven Heavenly Virtues, and more. Contains history, cultural associations, current thought, and additional reading on both Sin and Virtue. This is the place for info on Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, & Sloth.

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If you please and pamper your stomach, you will hurl yourself over the precipice of bodily impurity, into the fire of wrath and fury, you will coarsen and darken your mind, and in this way you will ruin your powers of attention and self-control, your sobriety and vigilance.

In the Summa Theologiae, medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of Gluttony: "Gluttony denotes, not any desire of eating and drinking, but an inordinate desire... leaving the order of reason, wherein the good of moral virtue consists." (2, 148, ad 1)